X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status:	No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,HS_INDEX_PARAM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL
X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
Message-ID:	<4E7C13B1.5000303@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:05:53 +0200
From:	Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
User-Agent:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental octave-3.4.2-2
References:	<announce DOT 4E7B047E DOT 8020605 AT gmail DOT com>
In-Reply-To:	<announce.4E7B047E.8020605@gmail.com>
X-IsSubscribed:	yes
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

embarassing package error.
3.4.2-3 on the way to replace it

Sorry
Marco

On 9/22/2011 11:48 AM, Marco atzeri wrote:
>
> New experimental versions 3.4.2-2 of
>
> octave,
> octave-devel,
> octave-doc
>
> are available in the Cygwin distribution:
>
> CYGWIN CHANGES
> This is a cygwin bug fix release of 3.4.2-1
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31641
> With a work around at the previous crash when running
>
> -------------------------
> graphics_toolkit ("fltk")
> x=1:10;
> plot(x,x)
> print("fltk.png","-dpng")
> -------------------------
>
> please test on the various MS system and confirm
> that the workaround is effective.
> Fully tested on XP-SP3 and recent cygwin snapshots.
>
> KNOWN BUGS
> On cygwin-1.7.9 the plotting function is working very bad.
> This is due to a fork bug and is not an octave bug.
> Any cygwin snapshots after 2011-06-01 solve the issues,
> so the next cygwin-1.7.10 will definetely remove the bug.
>
> HOW TO INSTALL
> Running cygwin setup, at "Select Packages" window, select
> "Exp" instead of "Curr" on the upper right corner.
> This selection will make version 3.4.2-2 available
> instead of current 3.4.2-1.
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The GNU Octave language for numerical computations
> Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible)
> high-level language, primarily intended for
> numerical computations. It provides a convenient
> command-line interface for solving linear and
> nonlinear problems numerically.
>
> HOMEPAGE
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
>
>
>
>
> Marco Atzeri
>
> If you have questions or comments, please send them to the
> cygwin mailing list at: cygwin (at) cygwin (dot) com .
>
> *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ***
>
> If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,
> look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this
> message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the
> format:
>
> cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com
>
> If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here:
>
> http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple
>
> Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that
> is available starting at this URL.
>
>
> --
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
>


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -